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To: fella
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
2 posted on 02/12/2014 6:39:23 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Diogenesis

Bttt.


4 posted on 02/12/2014 7:35:19 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Diogenesis

Sorry, certified bogus Cicero quote. I know, because I almost used it in a book, and I really checked hard. He never said it.

“The problem with internet quotes is that so many of them are false.”
~~Abraham Lincoln


7 posted on 02/12/2014 8:17:12 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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